Eye-Fi wireless SD cards for your camera are my favorites for all around use because they allow auto-upload to the web while I'm on the road. Google is selling the $70 version of the card for $50.  The catch is that the deal comes with a 200GB of storage online included in the price.  It is a good deal even if you don't want the subscription.  Sign up and then set the subscription to not renew.  You're still getting a bargain on the chip.   Note: this card doesn't handle RAW images...there is a new, more expensive pro version that does. But, if you're shooting jpgs this is a real bargain.

Although intended primarily for professionals, Portraiture Plug-in for Photoshop will be an invaluable addition to the toolkit of every designated family photographer. You already know who you are.  You're the person who is responsible for documenting family events - an often thankless job because the way people think they look, is often somewhat different from reality.

On a visit to George Lucas' Big Rock Ranch (for a preview of Clone Wars Season II) I took these shots of some of his amazing collection of film posters. Most are European, a few from Asia. There are also a few Star Wars related pieces and other art mixed in for good measure.

Now you can make professional looking bound photo books - the same kind you may have created on line at some photo sites - with the Photobook Creator Kit.

PureDigital has been in the pocket camcorder business for several years now, having started with disposable video cameras. Their newest, deluxe version comes in multiple colors, like an iPod Nano and can shoot up to an hour of video at a time. They've kept to the mantra of "keep it simple". The gizmo is nearly foolproof. Four buttons control most of the functions: on/off, record, play, and delete.

Sometimes getting a new point of view can reinvigorate your creative spirit. With that in mind I've been looking at a number of photography gadgets that are specifically designed to see the world in a different way. 3D is making a big comeback in movie theaters. Films from Superman Returns to animated adventures are showing up in IMAX 3D. Could 3D technology also spice up my still images?

Procrastination is a wonderful thing. For year’s I’ve intended to purge my digital photo library of underexposed, noisy photographs. You probably have them too: mottled with greens and purples, you know there but for an extra F stop or so, you might have had a great photo. Anyway, only laziness and a certain sense of regret has kept me from getting rid of those flawed photos.

From digital cameras cometh digital photos – lots of them! Adobe’s Lightroom is an attempt to bring some automated control and streamlining to the mundane processes of digital developing and organization. Not intended as a replacement for Photoshop’s layered approach to digital editing, Lightroom is designed, not for the “heavily edited” masterpiece or mulit-image collage, but for the ordinary grind of getting pictures from the camera, organizing, adjusting, and then sharing them.